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The Modern Essenes



Estimated reading time — 2 minutes

There were giants on the earth in olden days, and Methuselah lived to be 969 years old. Is it accurate to dismiss these accounts as fantasy or allegory?

Years ago in my freight-hopping days, I climbed into an open boxcar on a rural siding out in the middle of nowhere and was surprised to see a very old man sitting in a dark corner. We got to talking, and he told me that the perception of time passing was just an artifact of consciousness, and that everything was indeed happening at once.

He said that the ancient Essenes had learned to control time through conscious will, enabling them to live very long – though not quite immortial – lives, and that their descendants, modern Essenes, still walked the earth, blending in with us due to not wanting to call attention to themselves. He said it was impossible for ordinary humans to distinguish a modern Essene, but that cats, with their amplified sensory abilities, could tell almost immediately.

Apparently cats don’t like Essenes very much and the attitude is reciprocated, so an Essene will immediately leave the room upon seeing a cat in it. He further stated that the modern Essenes were hunting him down in order to kill him to suppress this secret, but that he (and I) were “pretty safe” out here on the rails.

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Slightly creeped out, I selected another boxcar to spend the night in, in hopes a train would come by the next day, hook up to the cars on the siding and take me somewhere interesting. An hour or two after midnight, I heard a rumble as a passenger train was approaching rapidly on the main track. I watched out the open boxcar door, through a light rain, as the windows and scenes on the passenger train flashed by, and I heard a loud thump as something thrown from the moving train struck the outside of my boxcar. The next morning I got out of the car to stretch my legs and found what had made the thump. it was the body of a cat with its neck broken.

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I never saw the old man again.

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55 thoughts on “The Modern Essenes”

  1. “There were giants on the earth in olden days, and Methuselah lived to be 969 years old. Is it accurate to dismiss these accounts as fantasy or allegory?´´
    stoped reading on the Methuselah thing.

  2. I much prefer the story leaving open the possibility that the old man was exactly what he seemed to be – a crazy old man living on a train. Stories that have obvious supernatural elements – especially supernatural elements that can be verified – just don’t seem as scary. Maybe it’s the scientist in me, but if, for instance, a headless corpse was haunting me and it appeared in full spectral apparition, I’d be pretty stoked. Sure, it’s scary, but I could probably find evidence for it and get those million dollar rewards for supernatural crap. And if it’s one of those supernatural dealies that always disappear when somebody else tries to see it, well, then if it isn’t hurting me I’m sure I’ll just get used to i.e. “Hey Mr. Floating Headless Corpse. How’s it going? You know, I don’t think you’ll ever get ahead in life with an attitude like that! Oh-ho, I crack myself up.”

  3. An Essenes got onto the train, killed the cat, presumably the old man too, took the body of the old man, but made sure the storyteller saw the cat’s body to act as a “warning” not to tell anyone the secret like the old man did.

  4. hmmm….i don’t get it. at first i thought that maybe the cat was the old man and he was killed. Then i thought the passing train had an essene on it and a cat on and the essene just threw out of the train into the boxcar the main character was in. But still idk if im right or wrong…i just want to see a twist ending like maybe White And Red. I mean that like i want to see an ending that when i read i will shit bricks AND understand the twist. Luckily, i am a newcomer here and have found a lot of those endings here. Thank you Creepypasta and thank you WHO WAS PHONE?!

  5. If the Essene were trying to keep themselves secret, (they were hunting the old man) why would he have told another person? It doesn’t make sense that he would be one. I assumed the old man was the cat.

  6. Now i’m gonna make a habit of giving anyone a cat hisses at the evil eye for like 5 seconds, just to see what they do.

  7. Martin Van Buren

    xDDD,

    BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW SOMEONE WROTE A FAKE FICTIONAL MADE UP STORY WHERE A CAT GOT KILLED AND I LOVE CATS SO NOW I AUTOMATICALLY HATE THE AUTHOR AND THE STORY AND WANT TO KILL HIS FAMILY BECAUSE I’M AUTISTIC!!!!!

    …then who was cat?

  8. @ MooMoon

    I know that. But apparently I was meant to the old guy on the train, not the one in that huge white house. Joe Bush, I think his names was… or was it George?
    Humans have such weird names.

  9. The impression I got was that the Essenes came for the old man that night – that the narrator narrowly dodged the proverbial bullet.

  10. A Cat with a Broken Neck

    Its pretty hard to talk with a broken neck… but come on guys, what did I ever do to you? And how did I get here anyway? Seriously, just leave me alone. Alright, I think I should die now, bye.

  11. What? Guys, I really like this one. I personally think that adding to it would take away from the kind-of crypticness of the ending. I think it’s supposed to be pretty clear that the old man was an Essene. :/

  12. this story had it’s good qualities but the whole thing kind of through me off. and it lets you think of the ending, kind-of. like either the man WAS crazy, HE was an essene, or there really WAS a real essene.

  13. Someone always beats me to the WHO WAS…

    Boo on you for not liking the dead cat. It’s a story, and I thought the death of the cat contributed well to the ending.

  14. I see what you were going for with the story, but a couple of things that kinda lost it for me at the end. It could just as easily have been that the old man was mad/lying, and that he just killed a cat for because he’s a crazy old man.

    Would have worked better if you stated that you heard several sinister voices from his cart that night, and what sounded like a struggle, and a cat fled the other room, looking agitated. The next morning, you check the old man’s box car, to find nothing but some ominous blood-stains, and a note for you, saying “It would be wise to forget about this. We see you.”

  15. Hmm….very interesting. I think maybe the ending was a little poor [not just because they killed the cat] but the rest was excellent.

  16. THEN WHO WAS OLD MAN?

    hurrrrr

    seriously you guys it’s not funny any more.

    Anyway, this pasta was okay, but there’s nothing supernatural about it. a crazy guy killed a cat.

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